AIDA Results Register

In the last two weeks I added results of 41 competition. The number of 2011 competitions in the database is currently 172 (868 competitions in total):

1st Thessaloniki Inter Apnea Games 2011 (GR)
Coupe départementale de Haute-Garonne (FR)
Los Angeles Apnea Challenge 2011 - US Nationals (US)
1° Trofeo Calispera 90 ASD di Assetto Constante (IT)
4° Trofeo Loris Pozzati (IT)
I Open Apnea Catalunya 2010 (ES)
Apnea Academy competition 2011 in Tago (JP)
12th Manazuru freediving classic (JP)
Apnea Academy 2011 indoor competition (JP)
1º Torneio Apneia Total Maceió (BR)
1ra Válida Apnea Clasificatoria 2012 (EC)
7th Cup of Montreal / AIDA Canada Indoor Regional Competition 2011 (CA)
Cup of Russia 2011 (RU)
Les 3 épreuves Apnea City (CA)
Silesian Freediving Cup 2011 (PL)
Hydro Dynamic - Austrian Championship 2011 (AT)
II Open Apnea Catalunya 2011 (ES)
All-Russian Competition 2011 (RU)
IV Cup AIDA Ukraine (UA)
Coupe de Noël du Haut-Rhin 2011 (FR)
Rhein-Main Cup 2011 (DE)
Campeonato Nacional 2011 (VE)
Trofeo Team Security Apnea 2011 (IT)
Championnat de Normandie 2011 (FR)
2° Trofeo H2BO `Bolognapnea` (IT)
7th Submania Apnea Cup 2011 (HR)
IV Cup AIDA Ukraine (FINAL) (UA)
2° Trofeo Asti Blu (IT)
Campionato Italiano Invernale Elite e Indoor per Societa` di Apnea Dinamica (IT)
Championnat de Guadeloupe (GP)
Coupe de France 2012 - 1ère manche (FR)
Open Freedive Liège 2011 (BE)
Niederösterreichische Meisterschaften 2011 (AT)
Toronto Static 2011 Mini Comp (CA)
Vertical Blue 2008 (BS)
FDD November Minicomp (EG)
Slovenian National Championship 2011 (SV)
11th anniversairy of AIDA Belgium (BE)
Danish Freediving Championship 2011 (DK)
Freedive Paradise II 2011 (US)
Open Argentino de Apnea 2011 (AR)

The most difficult task remains finding the results - very few organizers bother about sending or publishing the results. And when they do publish or send them, often they are in a format very difficult to use.

The number of missing 2011 competitions dropped to 18, so if you know about them, or know the organizers, please let me know: APNEA.cz ranking - missing competitions - 2011

apneaboy said:

Wow! That is a lot of competitions in one year, I hadn't realised there is so many. Amazing

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Yes, the sport grows, and the number of competitions is every year higher. You can see the evolution in the ranking statistics too:

APNEA.cz ranking

The numbers are not complete - as I wrote, I still miss results of many competitions, and there are many more not on my list at all.

And I guess that 2012 will be bigger again - already now, there are 45 future competitions on the calendar at apnea.cz. What is changing is that there are more and more non-AIDA competitions, and that non-AIDA depth competitions begin to show up too. So from the 45 competitions already announced for 2012, more than half - 25 competitions are from other federations than AIDA.

It would be naive to think that other federations have better ranking than AIDA, and that it is the reason for competitors leaving AIDA. They can currently only dream about some ranking system. The only non-AIDA federation that has some ranking system is the Italian FIPSAS, but that's no online database like AIDA has, but rather only manually assembled data sheets from individual competitions.

BTW, Apnea.cz ranking and data collection is not funded by AIDA, and the data collection of the +41.000 competitions results from 1999 to 2011 was done without spending any of your tax euros. However if you like and use it, you are welcome to send a donation to support the website.

I really do not understand where you see the AIDA ranking system deteriorating. I only see it getting better and better since the end of 2009. It was deteriorating in 2008 and 2009 when the manual Excel sheets stopped to be maintained and the Result Officer failed to add the results to the database. But since the end of 2009, I am not only entering all new competitions (resp. all I manage to find), but I added, completed, and corrected also hundreds of competitions from 2009, 2008 and older. So the ranking was never in better shape than it is now.

Additionally, Simo Kurra recently finished the interface for competition organizers, so it is now possible to have the ranking updated with new results practically live. If it does not happen, it is not the fault of the ranking system, but of the organizers - they were all informed about their obligation to submit the results within 14 days after the end of the competition, but unfortunately only small part of them abide the requirements. And I am afraid that without a pressure and repeated requests from the competitors directly during the competition, and in the few days after it, we won't see any change any soon.

Personally I would advise all competitors who participated at a competition whose results did not appear in the official ranking, to contact the organizer and asking them a refund of their tax fees (2€ per performance).

Perhaps I understand where your frustration comes from - I see you are from the USA, and the USAA is unfortunately indeed one of the worst in sending the results. It is very difficult to get their results, and when they sent them, they are rarely in the required format with all needed details. And I guess that they often do not pay the tax fee either, so it is not surprising US competitors have many their results missing from the ranking.

However you cannot blame AIDA International for that - the organizers, and the USAA were informed, and asked for the results countless times. The requirement are stated clearly in the rules. So as I wrote - if you miss your results in the ranking, contact the competition organizer or the USAA and ask them whether they sent the results, and whether they paid the fees to AIDA Int.